To assist you in seeking out the best image for this competition, we have included below some ideas:

• cultural heritage
• geographical uniqueness
• historical events or locations
• iconic landscape/cityscape
• roughness of Canadian landscape
• seasonal uniqueness
• symbols of caring, confidence, courage, encouraging, helping others, nurturing, pride, respect, self-sacrifice and trust
• nature
• wildlife specific to Canada
• Architecture

Your image can include aircraft, animal (feral or wild life), architecture, landscape, objects, people, plants, sea mammals, trains, vehicles, vessels, etc…

This competition will have thirteen themes each representing a province or territory in Canada.

• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Manitoba
• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland & Labrador
• Northwest Territories
• Nova Scotia
• Nunavut
• Ontario
• Prince Edward Island
• Quebec
• Saskatchewan
• Yukon

You are encouraged to submit your images which exemplifies the unique beauty of one or more themes from your perspective as either a resident or a visitor.
You are permitted to enter your images in one or more of the geographical themes but your total number of submitted images cannot exceed: 4 images for a CAPA member or 6 images from a camera club (all images from different photographers).

1. Eligibility Criteria – Prior to submitting any photo in a CAPA competition, all entrants must first read the CAPA Eligibility Criteria relating to image submissions. – READ ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA HERE
2. Open Editing –  All in-camera, on-camera and post-processing techniques are permitted. The submitted images may be a combination of multiple images and elements. The entrant must have taken all components of the final image. Digital frame, pin-line, borders and mats are permitted in this competition.
3. Colour or black & white or monochrome or infrared images are permitted.

Specifications

Image Titles

When images are uploaded into a competition – you are required to enter the title of your image into the Title field.  Title can be in either  English or French or both.

An image title should be simple and introduce or set the mood or perspective for your image.

Do NOT:

• enter the name of the photographer or club name in the title field
• include punctuation or symbols (such as / –_  , ; : ‘’ “” ! ? & $%*{} [ ] @ # &) or quotation marks in the title (For example: “Running_the_Roads-in/style”
• include punctuation or symbols in the filename (for example: dave/smith-“red rose!!!”..jpg)

Naming Image Filename

Prior to uploading your image into a competition, please ensure your image filename contains the name of the photographer and a unique title for each submitted image -– such as:

Sally Brown-The Wild Rose.jpg
Walter Rightside-The Wild Rose.jpg
Oliver South-The double rainbow.jpg
Winston_Rogers-CanadaDay.jpg
John Wayne-Sandy beach.jpg

Camera club coding or camera club names are not required in the filename.

Do NOT:

• use“jpg” or “no title” as a filename
• use only numbers (for example: 123456.jpg)
• include punctuation or symbols (such as , ; : ‘’ “” ! ? & $%*{} [ ] @ # &) in the filename (for example: dave/smith-“red rose!!!”..jpg)
• use more than one period in the filename – .jpg (For example: Robert Smith-Wonderful Sunset…..jpg)
• use the same filename for more than one submitted image
• use non-English characters in a filename, such as (â, ê, î, ô, û, é, à, è, ù) due to software limitations

Image Size – Dimensions

You must ensure your image is re-sized to meet the following two parameters:

1. Saved as a jpg image with a maximum file size of 1.8 MB.
2. Dimensions: Maximum horizontal size: 1400 pixels and maximum vertical size: 1050 pixels.

Note: Images smaller than the maximum dimensions will ONLY be accepted when one of the image edges has a horizontal size is 1400 pixels or the vertical size is 1050 pixels.  For example: square image – 1050 x 1050 pixels; landscape 1400 x 800 pixels; or portrait 700 x 1050 pixels.

Note: Images will NOT be rotated by the judges and will scored as submitted.

During the uploading process of your image, our online competition system will verify if the image is less than 1.8 MB and meets the two parameters.

If your image fails this verification process, you will receive an error message and it will appear below the upload image box.

Depending on the error message – you will need to either reduce the file size of the image to be 1.8 MB or less or re-size the dimensions of your image.  After doing so, please re-try uploading your image.

Suggestions – Use sRGB colour space for your image.  For colour accuracy: we strongly recommend that you calibrate your monitor to ensure colour accuracy from your monitor to the image projected to the judges.

1. Image title should complement or contribute to the vision or message being presented in the image.
2. Judges will award their scoring based on creative vision and the story telling value of an image along with the pictorial quality and technical quality (e.g. quality of execution, innovation, creativity, and ‘wow’ factor) as well as the degree that the image is within the Scope of the Theme.